Wednesday, February 19, 2014

A Prayer for Wednesday, February 19, 2014

We have our blessings and our joys; we have wonderful experiences and beautiful realities that are particularly ours. Thank you!

We also have our hurts and our grief; we have terrible experiences and painful realities that are particularly ours. Help us!

Use our particular joys and hurts to remind us that everyone else has theirs, too. Make us mindful that while our joys and hurts are ours, the experience of joys and hurts is universal.

Show us how to appreciate and to revel in our particular joy and to live in and through our particular pain without valuing them over those that belong to others—and so without valuing ourselves over others.

Show us how to live compassionately and creatively in our particularity and in our universality.

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The prayers that appear at Prayer 365 are written and published by Michael L. Ruffin. Permission is granted to use or adapt these prayers in public worship with the condition that if a prayer is reproduced in a printed order of worship attribution is given. Permission is also granted to link to a prayer at this site provided that a link back to this blog is provided. All other rights are reserved. All Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version unless otherwise indicated.